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ted plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and…

Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for refletion; terror, combined with amaxement; dismay. The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in onsternation downed. Attend the stern reply. Pope.

which it came; -- so called because the judges, on consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded.

a table or list of topics in a book, showing their order and the place where they may be found: a summary.

rlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon.

Convalescent. [R.] He found the queen somewhat convalesced. J. Knox.

or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. [He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon.

Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.

a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone.

mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili.

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. Core box (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. -- Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.

and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or indispensable. "A prince who regarded uniformity of faith as the corner stone of his government." Prescott. -- Corner tooth, one of the four teeth which com…

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia. [Written also corsac.]

The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.

orld or universe, including the heavens and the earth. The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. R. Owen.

One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.